Pebble Beach Food and Wine returns after 4-year hiatus

After four years, the extravagant Pebble Beach Food & Wine festival returns in April.

Dormant since 2020, the elegant culinary spectacle returns to the California seaside town for four days, featuring influential and world-famous chefs from across the country. Notable Bay Area chefs, including the Food Network’s Tyler Florence, Charles Phan of Slanted Door fame and Suzette Gresham of Acquellero, will be on-site cooking up a storm. Television personalities such as Geoffrey Zakarian, Scott Conant and Andrew Zimmern, who have all been guest judges on Food Network’s “Chopped,” will also be in attendance.

The charity event is a showcase of culinary talent put on by the non-profit Pebble Beach Company Foundation, which aims to support the area’s youth with literacy and education programs. The weekend extravaganza, from April 4-7, was first launched in 2008 and will be hosted once again at Pebble Beach Resorts, which is the site of the world-famous golf course that has hosted many PGA Tour Championship tournaments, including in 2002, when Tiger Woods won his first U.S. Open.

In total, there will be 38 events over the long weekend. Event-goers can expect dinners, seminars, walk-around food and wine tastings and more. They can also expect to shell out a mortgage payment for a ticket.

Among the ticket options, the Diamond package, which costs $10,000, grants access to 14 events, including invite-only late night parties. It is also the only package that includes playing golf on the historic and picturesque course. The Platinum package grants access to 11 events and costs $6,500. Lastly, the Gold package costs $3,000 and grants access to eight events. Events range from dinners with award-winning chefs Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud, to a champagne toast at the first hole to kick off the weekend.

There are also a la carte ticket options for the Saturday and Sunday Tasting Pavilions, which is where most of the 250 industry professionals will cook food and serve wine, according to a press release. Individual passes for those two days start at $475 and a weekend pass costs $1,200. Snack-sized plates from some James Beard-award winning chefs will be served featuring everything from creative dumplings to bumps of caviar.

Tickets and packages are on sale now. There is also a dress code — “smart casual or in line with the sophisticated atmosphere of the specific events.” No one under 21 is allowed.